The man who has shown his compassion (not to mention his IQ) for women by offering to buy their babies from them for $500, showed his tolerance for religious freedom at the Texas Senate...by walking out on the first Muslim prayer ever held in the Texas Senate.

Yes. That's right. Dan Patrick, the reichtwing radio talk show host whose "baby buying" bill was first reported by TexasKaos' moiv and has since brought widespread condemnation of Patrick, the Texas GOP and (of course) Texas, walked out on the very first Muslim prayer held in the Senate and then had the audacity to call himself tolerant! "I think that it's important that we are tolerant as a people of all faiths, but that doesn't mean we have to endorse all faiths, and that was my decision," he said later, "I surely believe that everyone should have the right to speak, but I didn't want my attendance on the floor to appear that I was endorsing that." Patrick was the only Texas Senator to walk out on him.

Ok, let me get this straight. You want to show your tolerance for religious freedom...by turning you back literally on it and walking out it?!? The man, like his buddy Rick Perry, is either a bumbling idiot or a political genius. I'm going with idiot.

What adds to the irony is the fact that the lawmaker who invited the Muslim cleric, Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque, was a Jewish woman and fellow Republican, Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano.

So go ahead, Dan. Explain to everyone in only your delusional, "baby buying" world how your actions make sense. Explain how a Jewish woman can invite and listen to a Muslim cleric but a fundamentalist Christian cannot. Explain why she has no problem this occured before the holy Jewish celebration of Passover but you and your fellow wingers are incensed a Muslim man spoke at the Senate days before Easter. Exactly when would it be ok for a Muslim man to speak, Dan?

Original WITH PICTURES at TexasKaos.com

There will be numerous sightings of Barack Obama in Texas including tonight in Houston and tomorrow in AUstin. Whether you have made up your mind about which candidate you're going to support or you're still open, I think this is a great thing for our state. For too long Democratic candidates running for President have ignored Texas because they consider it a lock for Republicans. How foolish. Given that John Kerry, who came infrequently and never at crunch time, still received 40% of the votes in George Bush's supposed home state in 2004, I think it would be a serious mistake for ANY candidate to ignore Texas.

Original post w/ additional details at TexasKaos.com

If you followed all the screaming by the Bush Administration over the weekend and yesterday, you'd be convinced by now that Iran was arming Iraqi insurgents. Actual Iranian weapons were discovered in Iraq in the possession of Shiite insurgents (red-handed!). Three senior US military officials and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow accused Iran of supplying weapons to the insurgents. Snow and company produced photographic evidence (much like the photographs of "mobile WMD trailers" Powell showed to the UN) and he stood in front the American people, speaking for the President of the United States, and unequivocally accused the highest levels of government in Iran of supplying weapons to Iraq.

The Bush administration is confident the report about the weapons flow from Iran into Iraq is accurate, spokesman Tony Snow said Monday.

Asked directly if the White House is confident that the weaponry is coming on the approval of the Iranian government, Snow said: "Yes."

There's just one problem. He's wrong. That's according to the top US military officer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace.

Damn. Looks like someone didn't get him the memo.

Original post at TexasKaos.com

Wow! Texas just became the first state to order all its school-aged girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine. Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is a common cause of STDs and can lead to cervical cancer and other gynecological cancers. Bypassing the Legislature, Republican Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. But why is it controversial? It's not except that some conservative groups believe girls with the vaccine will have more sex. That's right. These groups would rather expose young girls to HPV-related cancers than give them a vaccine that could save their lives.

Posted in full at TexasKaos.com

You really have to wonder sometimes just what the hell anti-abortionists are thinking sometimes. I've heard psuedo-science spew from anti-choice side on national television in which a woman (yes, a woman) argued that a rape clause was unnecessary in anti-abortion legislation because raped women cannot physically get pregnant. It's as if their ovaries have some "rape switch."

Besides the sheer lunacy of this science, this implies that every impregnated raped woman actually - if even for a second - ENJOYED BEING RAPED & in that split second loss of control, I guess a sperm got through the "Rape Barrier" and impregnated her. How brain-washed does a woman have to be in order to accuse another woman, who has been brutally violated, of "wanting" to be raped? It's that kind of illogical mind that can justify killing abortion doctors, as this sick man did in 1999. James Kopp killed Dr. Barnett Slepian in cold blood to stop the good doctor for respecting a woman's right to choice. But get this. This sick idiot said he wasn't trying to kill the doctor. He was just trying to seriously injure Dr. Slepian.

"If it happened the way I wanted it to, he would have his arm in a sling," said Kopp, who is serving a 25-year-to-life state sentence. He faces life in prison without parole for the federal conviction.

Weeell, Kopp, I guess it's perfectly ok to shoot people with high-powered rifles if you just meant to maim them! How could I have been so blind? Rape victims really were asking for it! Women should kept so ignorant of their bodies as to believe they're equipped with "Rape Shields."

And MURDER is an acceptable means to <u>saving</u> a life.

Or at least the clump of cells incapable of existing outside the mother which you call life.

Thanks for explaining it to me, Kopp. I just failed to see your logic.